Essie, Esia Shor, Levine

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Essie, Esia Shor, Levine


		First Name:	Essie, Esia
		Last Name:	Shor, Levine
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		Gender:	Female
		Date of Birth:	12/3/1925
		Country:	Belarus
		City:	Novogrudok
		Camps:	Novogrudok

Essie Shor was 16 years old when the Nazis invaded Belarus. After the Nazis occupied Novogrudok, the town where she and her family lived, most of her family were killed in an action. Only Essie and her father remained. Later, Essie was able to escape to the forest and spent two years as part of partisan group led by the Bielski brothers. Following the war, she married and had two children. Essie and her family emigrated to New York and she eventually became a school teacher. In this clip, Essie describes “selections” in the ghetto from which she lost most of her family

Presented in memory of Abraham W. and Ruth Lipsman